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The Oregon Senate voted 29-0 this week to require restaurants run by public entities to undergo routine health inspections. The legislation was prompted by a WW
story in December that reported the O
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Political pressure has been increasing on Mayor Charlie Hales to restore $1.2 million for sidewalk construction on Southeast 136th Avenue, after a 5-year-old girl, Morgan Maynard-Cook,
was struck an
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City officials were flushed with pride last November over news that the Portland Loo open-air public restroom they sold to Victoria, B.C., had been voted “Canada’s Best Toilet”
in a national p
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When voters approved a new taxing district for the Multnomah County Library last fall, they also crunched the City of Portland’s budget.
That’s because the new taxing district squeezed out $10 m
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Move over, Baltimore: Portland has its own Tommy Carcetti. City Commissioner Nick Fish will make his film debut on HBO next month in American Winter, a documentary on Portland families struggling on t
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Flummoxed by the fluoridation fight? Fluoridation opponents are adding to the confusion.
The campaign to pass city ballot Measure 26-151 in May, which would
authorize fluoridating the drinking wat
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High overtime spending in the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office will be part of an upcoming county audit. As WW reported, deputies use overtime to add tens of thousands of dollars to their pay (“O
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The Oregon Zoo
has apologized to a family whose 9-month-old son needed emergency
medical attention after getting sick following a meal at the zoo’s
Cascade Grill. Mitali Kulkarni says she and
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New Portland Mayor Charlie Hales
is making a response to the Newtown, Conn., school massacre a top
priority for his first week in office. Hales has scheduled a meeting
this week with Police Chie
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